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Week In Review: Armory Week Approaches, David Zwirner Goes Really Big, and More

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Week In Review: Armory Week Approaches, David Zwirner Goes Really Big, and More

Our most talked-about stories in visual art, February 25-March 1, 2013:

— Julia Halperin previewed next week's Armory Show art fair, including a bevy of special programming celebrating the centennial of the landmark 1913 Armory Show exhibition, while Benjamin Sutton took a look at the offerings at this year's ADAAArt Show, which marks its 25th anniversary.

ARTINFO editors on (almost) every continent picked the best artworks they'd seen during the month of February, from Douglas Gordon in Berlin to TextaQueen in Sydney.

— Kelly Chan toured architect Annabelle Selldorf's enormous new purpose-built David Zwirner gallery complex on West 20th Street in Chelsea.

— Janelle Zara looked into the innovative design of Superkilen park in Copenhagen, a bold-hued urban plaza designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, urban landscape architects Topotek 1, and artist collective Superflex.

— Coline Milliard picked the 10 best booths at the new London art fair Art13, from hometown favorite October Gallery to Dubai gallery Lawrie Shabibi.

— Dion Tan spoke to Gutai group member Takesada Matsutani about the collective's origins, his new exhibition at New York's Galerie Richard, and the Guggenheim's current retrospective of the movement's output.

— Rising star artist and self-described anti-finish fetishist Julia Dault discussed her work's genesis in tacky textiles and construction materials.

— Ben Davis pondered how the Guggenheim's "UBS MAP Global Art Initiative," which recently debuted with the opening of "No Country: Contemporary Art From South and Southeast Asia," became so very lost.

“Guggenheim's new UBS MAP Global Art Initiative”

— Photographer Brandon Stanton, founder of the popular blog "Human of New York," caught DKNY stealing his work for a window display in Bangkok after he specifically turned down an offer when the fashion label sought his permission to use his pictures.

— The new design fair Collective, founded by architect Stephen Learner, revealed the details of its inaugural edition, slated to coincide with Frieze New York in May.


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